The reading is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible, and will be followed by a booksale and signing. For more information, please see the Smith College news release or the Poetry Center website.

Merwin is one of the most widely read—and imitated—poets in the English language. Poet, translator, essayist, playwright and environmental activist, he has published 50 books and garnered most of the major prizes in American letters, including the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the Pulitzer Prize (twice) and the Bollingen Prize.

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